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...Animal-assisted therapy, in which specially trained animals visit facilities ranging from hospitals to homeless shelters to assist in physical or psychological rehabilitation, isn't new. But the concept of using therapy animals in reading programs is a real-life version of teaching an old dog new tricks. The idea was the brainchild of Sandi Martin, a board member at Utah's Intermountain Therapy Animals. Looking for a way to broaden the group's outreach, she thought about how therapy dogs help kids who are sick, scared and homeless. "One of the things we know is that when kids...
They say they hope the University will assist in this effort even if the city is powerless...
...Slow News Day," stars Katharine Washington, a young, self-confident, smartly dressed San Francisco native whose English mother has arranged an internship at the Mercury. Katharine mostly takes the job to gather color for the screenplay she hopes to sell. Assigned to assist Owen Holmes, the paper's lone, grumpy reporter, the two of them spark like wet leaves. "How do you spell 'centre,'" he demands by way of greeting. Meanwhile his girlfriend, the head of ad sales at the paper, impatiently waits for him to move out of his dad's house and into hers. Against a fascinating glimpse...
GEORGIA Strategic Presence The first contingent of U.S. special forces arrived to assist local troops in counterterrorism operations. Some 200 military instructors will be involved in the mission to train and equip Georgian soldiers to tackle Muslim extremists in areas like the remote Pankisi Gorge. The Pentagon has said the $64 million program will last six months, but others say the troops will stay on to protect U.S. regional interests...
ZIMBABWE Disastrous State The government declared a state of disaster to deal with critical food shortages, authorizing emergency measures to assist food distribution. The proclamation blamed the "prevalent drought," but relief officials said that agricultural disruption caused by government-sanctioned farm invasions had worsened the problem. The country was once a net grain exporter, but now more than half the population of 13 million urgently needs food...